User:David Gerard

Been around for years. I do stuff. Mostly volunteering with WMF and WMUK on press things. Admin on this wiki. A wikien-l/and to the grate iauk-l/wikimediaau-l listmod. Have read about diplomacy and can usually spell the word accurately.

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RationalWiki
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RationalWiki was created in 2007 as a counter to Conservapedia after an incident in which contributors attempting to edit Conservapedia were banned. Conservapedia is an encyclopedia started by Andy Schlafly as an alternative to Wikipedia, Conservapedia administrators, including Schlafly, questioned his credentials and shut down debate. After administrators blocked their accounts, Lipson and several other contributors quit trying to moderate the articles and instead started their own website, in 2010, Trent Toulouse incorporated a nonprofit organization, the RationalWiki Foundation Inc. to manage the affairs and pay the operational expenses of the website. In July 2013, the RationalWiki Foundation changed its name to the RationalMedia Foundation and it has a snarky point of view policy, as opposed to Wikipedias neutral point of view policy. Following this mission, many RationalWiki articles mockingly describe beliefs that RationalWiki opposes, a significant fraction of activity on RationalWiki was critiquing and monitor Conservapedia. RationalWiki contributors, many of whom are former Conservapedia contributors, are highly critical of Conservapedia. According to an article published in the Los Angeles Times in 2007, RationalWiki members by their own admission vandalize Conservapedia. com and less visible than YouTube or Wikipedia. In Intelligent Systems2014, published by the IEEE, Alexander Shvets stated, There are few online resources, such information helps non-experts to acquire the necessary knowledge to avoid being deceived. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, to help sort out the complexities there are sites like RationalWiki. org. The magazine American Thinker criticized RationalWiki after the latter called it a wingnut publication, author Paul Austin Murphy wrote, Theres a lot of sarcasm, though not much logical reasoning, argumentation or even discussion. In The Social Pollution Prevention Guide, Chester Davis described RationalWiki as like Wikipedia and they promote logic, critical thinking, and expose scammers and nonsense. RationalWiki has occasionally been quoted in popular and academic sources, tom Chivers of the Daily Telegraph cited and quoted RationalWiki for background on several Internet laws. Snopes has repeatedly quoted RationalWiki for background on Sorcha Faal of the European Union Times, RationalWiki was quoted by Magnus Ramage in Perspectives on Information about the Lenski affair. It was quoted by Thomas Leitch in Wikipedia U, Knowledge, Authority, Citizendium LessWrong Metapedia SourceWatch published by Center for Media and Democracy Official website RationalMedia Foundation